Matt Johnson: One of the challenges that you
encounter every time you get kids into groups is the dynamic within these
small groups. I've hopefully paired them off so that the group will work
together. There are strong and weak personalities mixed together and they
have the material in front of them so it's not a question of going out
and having to search. Getting them to agree on a position, on an argument,
a philosophy, may be difficult, but that's not necessarily a bad thing
if they're talking and engaged.

I think a lot of the groups are struggling with what cases help. Their
first reaction is, "There aren't any cases that support our position;
they are all against us." You really have to move the kids to think
about taking anything that's out there and figuring out a way to apply
it to their side. Their initial task is to come up with an argument, and
then find material to support it. Once you do a little Q and A with them,
and actually bring up cases, they start to see that there is material
out there. Even a case that, on its face, goes against their position
[has] pieces of it they can use.